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Guest louiesmum

Guest louiesmum

Me again, just another Q. Once your visa was granted what sort of time frame were you given to move to Oz. Because we have been advised not to sell our house until our visa's are granted, but i've noticed a few have you seemed to have sold up before this! Any advice.

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Guest ali@51

Guest ali@51

We put our house up for sale in Jan and were glad we did. It has taken us 9 months to sell. As we havent got our visa yet it means we will have to go into rented for a while, but the up side of this is that we will have rental references for when we go! If we hadent put the house up when we did we might have struggled to move in the 12m alowed.

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Guest stiffsimon

Guest stiffsimon

Might be wrong on this one but I'm applying for the 136 visa and my understanding was that you have twelve months to activate your visa once the visa has been granted. You activate the visa by visiting Australia within the twelve month period and you then have five years from that point on to actually move there.

I was also of the understanding that your police checks are only valid for twelve months and that , obviously, your visa would need to be granted whilst your police checks were still valid but once the visa had been granted that the police checks were in effect redundant. I may be wrong on this point and I stand to be corrected and also that this information is pertinent to the 136 visa and different rules may apply to different visas.

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Guest smit

Guest smit

Might be wrong on this one but I'm applying for the 136 visa and my understanding was that you have twelve months to activate your visa once the visa has been granted. You activate the visa by visiting Australia within the twelve month period and you then have five years from that point on to actually move there.

I was also of the understanding that your police checks are only valid for twelve months and that , obviously, your visa would need to be granted whilst your police checks were still valid but once the visa had been granted that the police checks were in effect redundant. I may be wrong on this point and I stand to be corrected and also that this information is pertinent to the 136 visa and different rules may apply to different visas.

Good luck anyway.

Simon

Unless things have changed, then , unfortunately your mistaken. It used to be 12months from police/medical checks. They will request these when youre getting near the visa end. If you have them done earlier to save time , then this is when the time starts from. This is why you hear of so many people coming for a validation trip, for varios reasons..........especially unsold houses!